I currently own a Washburn XB500. I always thought that my next bass purchase would be Warwick Corvette or Thumb.....Now you are getting me all excited about the Ibanez BTB405QM series... **
I must admit, they are very nice looking.. Hmm.. gotta go to a Ibanez dealer and try one out.

I played a 5 string BTB a while ago. I didn't like it much, although it had INCREDIBLY low action. Like it was so bad that you couldn't pick at all without getting the slightest fret buzz, and it wasn't plugged in.

I just checked out the BTB 5 string at lunch. Awesome. I was thinking of the Yamaha RBX765. But the BTB blew it away. It had a better B and awesome EQ. The neck is definitely fat and thick. Plenty of bass and treble tone.

I also went to my Ibanez dealer at lunch...unfortunately here in Iceland they don´t have much variety in stock :-( They only had GSR200 and the soundgear series. I tried them a bit and I didn´t like them.

It pretty much sucks living in Iceland when you want to try out a new bass. The music stores here carry very little selection of basses, very little variety. I´ve been ing over many basses over the net, only to find out that the stores here carry 1, maybe 2 different kinds of basses for every brand. That is not good